Items for Sale - Mourning Covers - Item#20661
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Item# 20661

CSA 11, 10¢ blue, 4 huge margins all around, tied by sharp SPARTANBURG C.H. S.C. 1863 cds on small laid-paper MOURNINGcover to Mrs. Willie P. Bocock, Macon Post Office, Marengo County, Alabama. Black-edged back as well with flaps intact, Extremely Fine.  Ex Ralph Swap. $600. 

Willis Perry Bocock (1806-1887) was a Virginia politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia, as member of the Virginia General Assembly, and as a representative to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850. He was an attorney by profession. A dangerous fall made him a cripple, and he resigned his Attorney General’s office, relocating to Macon, Alabama to live “the life of a private gentleman.”  

Price: $600